Easterhay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^If only those clones had been played by real actors in real suits of armour.

And that would have made so much difference, wouldn't it?

It would have been more aesthetically pleasing to my CG-sensitive eyes, yes.

Easterhay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:
At that time, I had been led to believe that the EU was fully canon, that Lucas respected the EU, and that the films would remain true to the EU and build off of its ideas while still telling its own story.

Had I known otherwise, I may not have been so disappointed. But things are the way they are, and I still don't like Order 66 or the rushed extermination of the Jedi.

I wonder what it was that led you to believe the EU was canon? I don't remember Lucas confirming it to be so at that, or indeed, any other time. Personally, I never took the EU that seriously, even the stories I enjoyed.

Perhaps it was because I was a naive kid at the time and assumed -- based on how internally consistent the EU seemed to be at the time and the use of the EU-derived "Coruscant" in TPM -- that the EU was considered a fully developed part of the greater SW Universe and that Lucas was taking it into consideration when developing the PT.

Had I known then what I know now -- that the prequels at the time already contradicted vast portions of the EU, which in and of itself was internally inconsistent -- I may not have gone into the PT expecting consistency with the EU.